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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
But plain and simple the point of playing a sport or game is to win.
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Winning is one of the hardest things to coach and teach athletes IMO. The problem with teaching it too early is kids develop poor habits, skills and techniques at early levels because it works at lower levels. Skill gaps are so wide at early levels right up to the high school level when kids are really getting filtered through the systems that "winning teams" can improperly develop player skillsets.
Eric Lindros skating with his head down all time is a perfect example of a player that never learned a fundamental skill hockey players need, because he didn't need to until it was too late. Nobody cared because he was dominating at all the other levels.